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Then I put the Ubuntu boot-repair ISO on a USB stick and booted into that, and get a couple of messages upon startup: I went back to do a sanity check and ended up just going through the process again only to get the same results. Or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key The installation finishes without any errors and ejects the CD, but upon restart I am greeted with: Reboot and Select proper Boot device I select yes and at the bottom of the screen see the command: grub-install /dev/sdf /dev/sdg

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Afterward the installation continues as normal and eventually I hit a screen indicating 'this new installation is the only operating system on this computer' and prompts me to install the GRUB boot loader to the MBR. select new RAID 1 device and set the 'use as' option (swap/ext4) as well as the mount point for the ext4 partitions (/ and /home/)įrom here I select 'finish partitioning and write changes to disk', select the default of no when confronted with the option to boot from a degraded RAID, and confirm the changes.select the two matching partitions and finish MD configuration.

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select 'configure software RAID' > 'create MD devices', and configure a RAID 1 device with two drives and zero spares.create identical partition on the physical device that this partition will be paired with.set as 'physical volume for RAID' (set bootable flag on partition mounted at /).

create partition on empty drive (4 GB for the swap, remaining space for the ext4s).

I set up the partitions with the help of a tutorial I found on YouTube for installing Ubuntu 12.04 server this is the procedure I used for each partition pair:

two 2 TB partitions across sdh and sdi as ext4, mounted at /home/.

two 2 TB partitions across sdf and sdg as ext4, with the bootable flag set, mounted at /.

two 4 GB partitions across sdf and sdg as swap space.

I am using four 2 TB drives (sdf-sdi) to create three RAID 1 devices:

I'm using an alternate installation CD in order to configure a software RAID from which to boot. I am trying to set up an instance of Ubuntu desktop (12.04.5) which boots from a RAID 1 device. TL DR: created RAID 1 at installation of Ubuntu desktop but it won't boot after seemingly successful installation, although boot utility seems to indicate that GRUB is installed

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